Friday, January 30, 2009
Entry 6
Bitzer does not mean rhetorical audience, rhetorical speaker, rhetorical occasion, rhetorical speech, or rhetorical subject. He wants to know what discourse the speaker or audience is taking in a rhetorical situation. A exigence is when something is imperfect and marked with urgency. It is a obstacle or anything that is incomplete. For example a exigence could be anything for not naming something to not specifying on a particular action, such as “the boy ran” well who is the boy? Where did he run? How old is the boy? Any of these questions makes the statement a exigence.
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I think you're right that exigence is related sometimes to a sense of mystery. sometimes we feel the need to know something, we have questions that we feel need to be answered. This can be an exigence, Bitzer would argue, if we believe that through research and writing we can work towards an answer to our question.
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